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NHTSA and Motor Vehicle Safety - April 2021

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Over the past few years, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the primary regulator of motor vehicles and motor vehicle equipment and their manufacturers, has been balancing its work of keeping pace...more

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Guidance Recap for the Upcoming Annual Report and Proxy Season

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As reporting companies advance in preparations of their 2019 annual report and 2020 proxy statement, this update includes a recap of some of the more significant disclosure rules adopted and other announcements published by...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Making a List and Checking it Twice: Preparing for the Most Wonderful Time of the Year – Annual Report and Proxy Season

With proxy and reporting season preparations in full swing, demands on time are high and resources might be limited, so we focus our reminders on new and changed disclosure items that might otherwise be easy to overlook. ...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Key Takeaways from Our Public Company SEC Reporting Webinar

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The Bass, Berry & Sims Corporate & Securities Practice Group recently hosted another in a series of complimentary webinars exploring various public company-related securities law issues. The most recent Securities Law...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Form 20-F for Fiscal Year 2019: What Foreign Private Issuers Should Keep in Mind

There have been significant recent developments in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulation of foreign private issuers, (FPIs) including changes that impact the annual report on Form 20-F for fiscal year 2019....more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Everything Public Companies Need to Know About Recent SEC Amendments

Nearly a year and a half after proposing them, the SEC recently adopted amendments to disclosure requirements for reporting companies, as mandated by the 2015 Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (the FAST Act). These...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

SEC Simplifies, Modernizes Reporting Requirements for Public Companies

Public companies will soon receive a bit of relief from reporting requirements under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, courtesy of amendments recently adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). ...more

Snell & Wilmer

SEC Proposes Changes Expanding Eligibility for “Smaller Reporting Companies”

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The SEC has proposed changes that would expand the number of registrants that qualify as “smaller reporting companies” under the SEC rules and regulations. Under the proposed definition, the pool of registrants qualifying as...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

SEC Proposes Amendments to Update and Simplify Disclosure Requirements as Part of Overall Disclosure Effectiveness Review

On July 13, 2016, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) announced proposed amendments in order to update and simply its disclosure requirements. ...more

Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog

SEC Proposes Increasing Threshold to Qualify as a Smaller Reporting Company

The SEC has proposed amendments that would increase the financial thresholds in the “smaller reporting company” definition. The proposal to update the definition would expand the number of companies that qualify as smaller...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

SEC Completes JOBS Act Rulemaking with Amendments to Exchange Act Registration Rules

The SEC recently adopted rules implementing Title V and Title VI of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the “JOBS Act”) and Title LXXXV of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (the “FAST Act”). Title V and...more

Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog

SEC Finalizes Rules Implementing JOBS Act and FAST Act Provisions Concerning Exchange Act Registration Thresholds

On May 3, 2016, the SEC adopted final rules regarding reporting obligation thresholds under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 mandated by the JOBS Act and the securities provisions of the FAST Act. The rules become...more

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2016 IPO Report

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Our 2016 IPO Report offers a detailed analysis of, and outlook for, the IPO market, plus useful IPO market metrics. We look at rates of adoption of JOBS Act relief by emerging growth companies, and recent FAST Act amendments...more

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JOBS Act Quick Start – A Brief Overview of the JOBS Act, 2016 Update

Many market participants were taken by surprise by the enactment of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act. The JOBS Act, HR 3606, was passed by the United States House of Representatives on March 8, 2012. On March...more

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SEC Further Enhances the IPO On-Ramp

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The SEC’s rule changes further streamline the pathway for many companies to conduct their initial public offerings and reduce the burdens associated with their subsequent SEC periodic reporting obligations. On January...more

Orrick - Finance 20/20

SEC Approves Interim Final Rules Implementing Two Provisions of the FAST Act

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On January 13, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it approved interim final rules implementing two provisions of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, adopted by Congress in December, that...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

SEC Adopts Interim Final Rules to Implement FAST Act Provisions

On January 13, 2016, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) adopted interim final rules to implement Sections 71003 and 84001 of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (the “FAST Act”). The interim final...more

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

The FAST Act – If You Blinked You May Have Missed It.

On December 3, 2015, the President signed into law the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (the “FAST Act”) which provides for five years of funding for highway projects. If you just skimmed the news on this one, you...more

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InterConnect - Winter 2015/2016

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Out Like A Lion? The waning weeks of calendar year 2015 witnessed a remarkable convergence of regulatory and legislative activity affecting the transportation industry. For instance, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety...more

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Form 8971: Consistent Basis Reporting Between Estate and Persons Acquiring Property From a Decedent

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Recent changes to the law have imposed upon executors of a decedent’s estate new reporting obligations with regard to a decedent’s property. In short, the changes require executors, and others if necessary, to file with the...more

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SEC Staff Provides Additional Guidance on the FAST Act

On December 21st, 2015, the SEC Staff issued four additional C&DIs related to the FAST Act, which we have repeated here for convenience. Question 3 - Question: How did the FAST Act affect Section 12(g) and Section...more

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